Do You Remember The Giant Pizza Wars From the 90s?



Weird History Food is taking you back to the 90s when Dominos, Little Caesars and Pizza Hut faced-off. With pizza, less is never more. More is more. More slices, more toppings, more cheese. Never was that more apparent than in 1993, when America’s three biggest pizza chains – Pizza Hut, Domino’s, and Little Caesars – launched nearly identical short-lived super-pizza concepts: the Bigfoot, the Dominator, and the Big! Big! Pizza, respectively. What all three pizzas had in common was that they were marketed not on how they tasted, but on how enormous and impractical they were.

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32 thoughts on “Do You Remember The Giant Pizza Wars From the 90s?”

  1. Little Caesar’s pizza would have been better if the pizzas would have been a little bigger and cut in to squares.

    Best pizza in my book was the Panteras Hunk.
    Massive deep dish with 4 or 5 pounds of toppings.
    One hell of a meal.

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  2. 8.99 for two deep dish pizzas… my God! We are getting raped by prices these days and Pizza Hut is wearing the biggest strap on. I use to be able to get a large one topping for $7, now it’s $11, yet the same damn pizza. Little Caesars and Domino’s still have good deals, but Pizza Hut has gone overboard and now just a pizza restaurant for the 1%. If they brought back the Bigfoot it would be a $20 pizza. No thanks, as much as I love Pizza Hut, I’ll stick with Little Caesars these days.

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  3. I do actually remember the bigfoot pizza thing. Like ugh, I remember all of this and all of the gimmicks were really rough and kinda gross until stuffed crust came along.

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  4. pizza hut is frozen food the dough and bread stix are frozen and thawed,as for little ceasars pizza not delivering,they did in my area i have there car topped and delivery jackets they used

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  5. Driver of the week Dominos pizza 🍕 and they sponsored our college volleyball team, Al back in the 1900’s.
    Last week I tried DOMINOS APP
    2 Specialty pizzas 🍕
    And 2 salads 🥗
    72$
    Inconceivable
    Ya have to do a search and rescue 🛟 to find out what deals
    Deleted App
    Cheers 🍻

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  6. I was born in 1980, so yeah, I remember hearing about pizza wars… But… I live just outsid of a small farming town that only has Pizza Hut, Sonic, and Subway. We used to have a Dairy Queen, but it's suspected that the owners burned it down for insurance money, as they didn't have the funds to renovate it up to modern standards. Now there's a car wash where that used to be.

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  7. I came up in western Massachusetts, a place that still does party sized sheet pizzas like the old days. The kind that used to tape 2 large pizza boxes together to get it to fit the pie. It's a fad that never died there, though it did back off from the craziness of the wars. I still remember Liqouri's in West Springfield would offer a "crazy slice" which was a quarter of one of those pizzas for around $5. My 30 year old self would still take 3 servings to eat it all. When I moved away from there, I noticed that there were no "party size" pizzas anywhere and a lot of places do personal size instead.

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